Automobile-support



WITNESSES A; J. PARKER.

AUTOMOBILE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. a, 1908.

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

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AUTOMOBILE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED we. s, 1908.

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A. J. PARKER. AUTOMOBILE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3, 1908.

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Uh lliED STATES PATENT Uhiiltliit ALFRED J. PAPtIiER, OF NEWARK, NEW J ERSEY AUTOMOB ILE-SUPPORT.

Elm-917,35 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented April 6, 1909.

i Application filed. August 3, 1908. Serial No. 446,568.

To all whom it may concern: I of said bar 12 and abutting at their top edges Be it known that I, ALFRED J. PARKER, a the under surface of the tracks 1 l. For the citizen of the United States, residing at Newsides of my improved support, other l'rames urk,in the county of Essex and State of New 16, 16 are provided, and these side homes are Jersey, have invented certain Improvements also of rectangular form, and the end sections so in Antoniobile-Supports, of which the l'ollowthereof are trussed by braces 17. The miding is a specification. dle sections of the side frames, between the The objects of this invention are to prouprights 18, are left open so as to permit invide for owners of automobiles a convenient gross and egress to the space inclosed by the support upon which the machine can be support and beneath the automobile. The on placed for getting beneath the same to make side frames 16 have each at its lower. edge an repairs; to provide such a support which can inside rail 19 which at its ends lits between be collapsed or knocked down and thus the end frames413, shown in Fig. 3, thus packed away or transported in a very small serving tobrace the said end frames These space; to secure convenience and comfort in side frames 16 may be detachably connected Working at the under part of an automobile; to the top 10 and ends 13 of the support in to provide a simple and practical construcany suitable manner, but I have shown in the tion, and'to obtain other advantages and redrawings hooks 20 connecting the top of each sults as may be brought out in the following side frame near its center with the adjacent 2o description. track 11 of the top, and other hooks 21 near Relerrin to the accompanying drawings, the lower edges of the ends of the side frames in which li (e numerals of'referenco indicate adapted to reach across the corner or angle the same parts in the several ligures, Figure 1 and engage the adjacent end l'rame, suitable is a side elevation of my improved support in keepers being of course provided for all said 25 use with an automobile thereon; Fig. 2 is a hooks. -When the parts thus described are plan of the support; Fig. 3 shows the horizonconnected. or assembled as eX ilained and as tal portion of the support in vertical section shown in .l igs. 1, 3 and 4 ol' the drawings, a upon line 3, 3, l ig. 2; Fig. 4 is a transverse box-like support is provided which possesses vertical section on line 4, a, Fig. .2, looking in i great rigidity and is adapted to support any 1 30 the direction indicated by the arrow; Fig. 5 automobile with great firmness and safety, as

illustrates in perspective certain coupling will be understood. At the same time free means for the horizontal and the inclined access is permitted from the sides to the inportions of the support; Fig. 6 shows the supterior of said support, so that the user can ort knocked down and packed together, readily and conveniently examine his auto- 35 coking at the side thereof, andthe pieces bcmobile from beneath. ing slightly separated for greater clcarncss, F or running the automobile upon the and] 7 is a similar view looking at the tracks 11 dcscril. ed, an incline 22 is provided ends of the pieces. comprising opposite tracks 23, 23 connected In said drawings,'l(l imlicatcs the top or by cross-strips 24. 'lhcse tracks 23 are 40 platform of my improved support, said top similar to the tracks 11 of the body portion providing parallel horizontal tracksll, 11 for of llnfa support and are adapted to register the wheels of the automobile, and said tracks therewith at one end, while the other end being connected near their opposite ends by rests upon the ground. ivlidway of said bars 12, 12. To each end of said top 10 is ends a prop 25, consisting of legs 26 under 4.) hinged an end frame 13'adaptcd' to be the tracks 23 andconnected by a crossbrought into vertioal'position to support the strip 27, is hinged. to the under side of the said top at proper height from the ground. incline. Hooks 28 are also provided upon These end frames as shown comprise rectanthe incline to engage keepers 29 on the legs gular frames trussed by cross-braces 14, but and hold the prop in open or supporting.

to obviously they could be of any suitable deposition. The said incline is desired to be 10;

tail construction adapted to the purpose. scparably and still securely attached to the They are shown as each hinged to a bar 12, as body part of the support, and I have shown at 15, adapted to fold beneath the top 10 as this accomplished by means of the members shown in Figsfi and 7, and when opened int-o shown in F 5, where 29 indicates a plate 05 vertical positionto lie against the outer cdgc adapted to be secured to the body part of the adapted to be attached to the incline. Preferably two of these coupling means are e1n- I "port may e made of any suitable height,

support, as either wooden or iron bars or known means equivalent to those which I have illustrated.

Having thus described the invention, what claim as new is:

1. A collapsible automobile support, comprising in combination a platform adapted to support and providing a socket or keeper 30 for a tongue 3]. projecting from a plate 32 ployed, one under each track of the hinged part, as shown in Fig. 1, and thus by slightly raising the u per end of the incline, the said i receive u )on itself an automobile, side incline can e entirely detached from the frames am. end frames adapted to hold said body portion .of the support. The sockets platform up from the ground and afford acor kee er plates 29 can be secured to any cess beneath the same, means for collapsibly suitab e part of. the body of the support, connecting said frames edgewise to sai platalthough 1 have shown them in the drawform and to each other, and an incline eadl mgs as mounted upon the ends of the side l ing to said platform and collapsible with reframes 16. l spect thereto.

It will be understood that when the sup- 2. A collapsible automobile support, comport above described is erected as shown in prising in combination a platform adapted to Fig. 1, an automobile may be driven uponto receive upon itself an automobile, side frames the same or drawnup by means of suitable and end frames adapted to stand vertically tackle attached to'a hook 33 on the forward beneath the edges of said plaf form and form cross-bar 12. The wheels of the automobile a box-like body, means for collapsibly conthen rest over the trussed end portions of the neeting said-frames to each other at their end support, so that'great rigidity and firmness edges and to said platform at their top edges, is secured, and at the same time free ingress and an incline leading to said platform and and egress is provided at the middle part of collapsible with respect thereto. the side frames to the space beneath the 3. The hereindescribed collapsible automoautomobile. Blocks 35 or other equivalent stop means, arranged on the tracks 11, 11 at their ends op osite the incline 22, limit movement of t e automobile in that direction to prevent it from going off over the end of the sup ort. The body part of the supplatform having su e tracks and end connecting bars and being open between said end bars and tracks, end frames and side frames adapted to stand beneath said platform, said sideframes beingopen at their middles, means for collapsibly connecting said frames to said platform at their upper edges, meansfor releasabl holding. .said frames in fixed boxlikerefiition to; each other, andzan incline leading to said platform and collapsible with respect thereto.

i i l l i l i l i l 1 i i l I l i ut in practice three and a half or four feel has been found to be sufficient.

When not in use, the support is readily knocked down or collapsed and can be folded l compactly and neatly together for storage or J transportation. The incline 22 is first detached, and its prop folded as shown in combimition'with a platform adapted to re- I ceivo upon itself an automobile, of frames adapter to be collapsed with respect. to said plat-form or extended in relation thereto to Figs. 6 and 7; the side frames 16 are then detached and laid together as also shown in 5 said figures; and lastly the end frames 13 are folded in under the platform 10, as shown. in this condition, the prop and cross-strips 27 of the incline enter between the ends of the folded end frames of the 5 platform, as clearly shown in Fig. 6, and also i the superposed side frames to are adapted to lie between the tracks 1 1, 11 of the incline, as clearly shown in Fig. 7. The construction of the support thus facilitates packing when collapsed or knocked down.

Obviously any suitable material may be used in the construction of my improved frames being each trussed at its end ortions and open at its middle part, and a co lapsible incline leading to said platform.

' 5, in a'portable automobile sup ort, the combination with a top platform mlitpted to receive upon itself an automobile, end frames hinged to said platfornnside frames, means for detachably connecting said side frames to said platform and end frames,'an incline, and means for detachably connecting one end of said incline to said platform. a

I I ALFRED J. PARKER. In the presence of 'Bnn'rna S. FULTON,

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rods of any ordinary form, and furthermore the drilerent members of the support may be xeparably or cells psibly connected by any bile support, comprising in com""iation a 4. Ina portableautomobile siipport, the

hold'the same up from the ground, said 

